Chords for Leslie Fish & Julia Ecklar - Hymn of Breaking Strain - Lyrics

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_ _ _ The _ careful textbooks measure _ [Eb] Let all who build [Gb] _ beware
_ [Bbm] The load, the shock, the pressure _ [Eb] Material _ [Gb] can _ [Abm] bear
[Bbm] So when the [Eb] baffled girder [Gb] Lets [Ab] down the grinding [Bbm] _ span
The blame of loss [Eb] or murder [Gb] Is [Ab] laid upon [Bbm] the _ man
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[Ab] Not on the steel, _ [Bbm] the man _
_ _ [Bb] But _ in [Eb] our daily [Bbm] dealing _ [Eb] With stone and steel [Gb] we find
[Bbm] The gods have no such feeling [Eb] Of justice toward [Gb] _ mankind
[Ab] _ [Bbm] To no set [Eb] gauge they make us [Gb] For [Abm] no lame [Bbm] course prepare
_ In time they [Eb] overtake _ us [Gb] With [Ab] loads we cannot [Bbm] _ bear
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Too [Ab] _ _ merciless [Bbm] to bear
_ _ _ _ _ The prudent textbooks give it _ [Eb] In tables [Gb] at the _ end
[Db] [Bbm] The stress that shears a rivet _ [Eb] Or makes a tie [Gb] bar _ [Db] bend
[Bb] What traffic [Eb] wrecks MacAdam [Gb] What [Ab] concrete should [Bbm] _ endure
But we four [Eb] sons of Adam [Gb] Have [Ab] no such [Bbm] literature
_ _ _ [Gb] _ To [Ab] warn us o'er [Bbm] made sure _ _ _ _ We'd hold all [Eb] earth [Bbm] to plunder
[Eb] All time and space [Gb] as well [Bbm] To wonder stale to wonder
[Eb] At each new _ [Gb] miracle _ [Db] [Bbm] To live the [Eb] illusion
_ _ [Gb] Of [Ab] Godhood needs [Bbm] our _ hand For multiple _ [Eb] confusion
_ [Gb] On [Ab] all we did [Bbm] or _ planned [Gb] _ _
The [Ab] mighty _ works [Bbm] we _ planned
_ _ _ We only [Eb] in [Bbm] creation _ [Eb] How much luckier the bridge [Gb] and _ [Db] rail
[Bbm] _ Abide the twin damnation _ [Eb] To fail and know [Gb] we fail
[Db] _ [Bbm] Yet we [Eb] by which soul token _ [Gb] We [Ab] know we once [Bbm] were _ gods
Take shame in [Eb] being broken _ [Gb] _ [Ab] _
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_ [Ab] Lovered in awe
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_ _ _ _ Oveiled like a secret of power [Ab] [Eb] We _ seek [Gb] in vain
[Ab] [Bbm] Be with us in our hour _ [Eb] Of overthrow [Gb] and _ [Db] pain
[Bbm] Yet we by [Eb] which soul token _ [Gb] We [Ab] know thy ways
[Bbm] _ _ [Ab] _ [Bbm] In spite of [Eb] being broken [Bbm] Or because of [Eb] being broken
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Rise [Ab] up and _ [Bbm] build a new _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Gb] _ _
_ [Ab] land
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